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How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 40:23 David Senra Like you're the one very similar to the advice that James Dyson's, uh, mentor gave him, you know, half a century ago.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 5:57 David Senra And you know, people are always like, why, why'd you read James Dyson's first autobiography five times? 3 times in the scene
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I wanted to read a biography of Sochiro Honda after James Dyson wrote about the impact that Honda had on his career. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:27 David Senra And for me, one of the most interesting parts of the story is how much it mirrors James Dyson's own story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:58 David Senra When I got to this section, I thought of this quote from James Dyson's first autobiography where James Dyson writes, anyone can become an expert in anything in six months. 2 times in the scene
Excellent Advice For Living: 79 Maxims from a Wise Old Man
- ▶ 3:04 David Senra So when I read this, two people popped to mind, Michael Dell and James Dyson.
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 18:06 David Senra I would say this reminds me very much of, I've told you my favorite book that I've ever read for the podcast was James Dyson's autobiography. 3 times in the scene
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 9:11 David Senra But when I read it, I thought about James Dyson and he has built this phenomenal empire. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:31 David Senra That sounds a lot like James Dyson's mantra of
The Genius of Christian von Koenigsegg
- ▶ 4:20 David Senra This reminds me of James Dyson. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:23 David Senra If you listen to episode 400, this is very similar to Jeremy Fry, who mentored James Dyson.
- ▶ 15:45 David Senra This is why I keep talking about Dyson over and over again. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 David Senra Uh, like he doesn't separate engineering design, which again, Dyson doesn't either.
- ▶ 29:27 David Senra Again, this is James Dyson, Jeremy Fry.
- ▶ 37:50 David Senra So you, if you've listened to this for a long time, you understand that James Dyson is the number one person I wanted to meet. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:30 David Senra Again, I'm sorry to bring up Dyson so many times. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:37 David Senra The James Dyson one that is coming out soon.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 45:32 David Senra So if you remember, uh, James Dyson had this great realization from trial and error.
How Rockefeller Worked
- ▶ 57:19 David Senra If you've been listening to this podcast for a long time, you know that my number one person I wanted to meet was James Dyson. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 4:02 David Senra This goes back to an idea that has popped up the last few weeks with you and I, when we talked about James Dyson, believe that lean engineering is good engineering.
- ▶ 20:02 David Senra It's remarkable how many of these people that, that we admire, like a Bezos or Jobs or James Dyson, studied Akio Morita and Sony.
- ▶ 26:18 David Senra I talked about it last week on the Dyson episode. 2 times in the scene
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 0:10 David Senra My number one recommendation has been for many years and still is to this day, James Dyson's first autobiography called Against the Odds. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 David Senra One of the most important things that, that ever happened to James Dyson is that he winds up meeting Jeremy Fry. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:57 David Senra And so one of the things that Dyson and Jeremy Fry had in common is the fact that they both used history, learning from history as a form of leverage. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:16 David Senra And one of the most important things to understand about Dyson is his need for mentors and guidance. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:58 David Senra Now, what might be surprising to you is his response to the death, the early death of his father. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:31 David Senra And so one of the interesting that he says that opportunity hides in plain sight, he says everyday products sell. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:08 David Senra By running tens of thousands of experiments throughout his life, every single experiment was aimed at making a better product for his customer. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 David Senra When experts, so-called experts, told James Dyson that his revolutionary wheelbarrow, the ballbarrow, was impossible, he said, this only strengthened my resolve and made me more determined to prove them wrong. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:56 David Senra Something Dyson's gonna repeat over and over again. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 David Senra One of Dyson's heroes that he mentions a bunch is Thomas Edison. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:45 David Senra Now, Dyson also has a bunch of ideas on hiring.
- ▶ 34:49 David Senra Dyson brings up the fact that everybody tried to get him to sell the company over and over again, as soon as he had a little bit of success. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:16 David Senra Now, I want to go back to this idea that Dyson's philosophy, his company building philosophy, it only works if you like the work and you're like Dyson.
- ▶ 43:26 David Senra So Jeremy Fry actually gives Dyson 25,000 dollars to start his first vacuum cleaner company. 26 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 David Senra He tried. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:57 David Senra And then he gets into a lot of these great ideas. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:53 David Senra Another idea that Dyson has in common with Elon, cut out middlemen and those who add no value. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:26 David Senra And so then Dyson has another idea that he learned from some of the great engineers and designers that he admired. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:29 David Senra And so he was trying, so he's trying to tell us, Hey, you can't, you can't lead your employees by isolating yourself from them. 22 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 1:40:06 David Senra I'm, at the same time I was reading this book, I was rereading James Lyson's autobiography, which is going to be the next episode, and him and Steve and James pick up on the exact same thing. 2 times in the scene
Jiro Ono: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Advantage
- ▶ 3:29 David Senra What, one of my favorite quotes about James Lyson, who's obviously a big hero of mine. 4 times in the scene
Michele Ferrero's $40 Billion Privately Owned Chocolate Empire
- ▶ 7:35 David Senra His approach to his work, it's going to remind you a lot of like a Steve Jobs, an Edwin Land, a James Dyson, an Yvonne Chouinard.
- ▶ 13:48 David Senra James Dyson, again, not making chocolate, making vacuum cleaners, and he says difference for the sake of it.
- ▶ 27:31 David Senra This is again, this is just like James Dyson. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:32 David Senra Michael, like James Dyson, and I would say like Steve jobs, he believed in the Edisonian principle of design.
Rare Steve Jobs’s Rare Interview
- ▶ 7:26 David Senra James Dyson, who's one of my heroes, talked about this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 David Senra In fact, I read this interview that James Dyson gave, and there's an excerpt from the interview that I think is really great. 4 times in the scene
How Tamara Mellon Built Jimmy Choo
- ▶ 38:21 David Senra It's James Dyson's autobiography. 5 times in the scene
The Life Story of Akio Morita: Founder of Sony
- ▶ 3:00 David Senra Here's what James Dyson, James Dyson wrote as his second autobiography when he was in his seventies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:41 David Senra It's gonna sound a lot like James Dyson.
The Life Story of Michael Dell
- ▶ 1:17:53 David Senra Like James Dyson, Bloomberg, Dell,
Todd Graves and His $10 Billion Chicken Finger Dream
- ▶ 28:06 David Senra Minds me of James Dyson, founder of Dyson, still owns a hundred percent of his business.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 54:49 David Senra You know, James Dyson's autobiography, Phil Knight, this biography, they're just really important, because it's Sam Walton's, they just lay out exactly, you know, it's a, it's a wise older man looking back at, with a lot of wisdom, and I…
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 23:47 David Senra So that's an idea that James Dyson realized. 5 times in the scene
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 9:08 David Senra In James Dyson's autobiography, which I covered, I think for the fourth time on episode 300, uh, this is called the Edisonian principle of design. 6 times in the scene
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:30:10 David Senra Two, two autobiographies of James Dyson's that, you know, it's probably 50, 60, 70 hours of reading, countless hours of inputting the notes and highlights into Founders Notes, and so what I did is I went and reread every single note and… 5 times in the scene
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 26:18 David Senra This from James Dyson. 2 times in the scene
The Inside Story of America's Richest Man: Sam Walton
- ▶ 35:20 David Senra Then no one is ever eager to fix a cash machine that isn't broken is in James Dyson's autobiography. 2 times in the scene
How To Be Rich by J. Paul Getty
- ▶ 1:03:13 David Senra So episodes could be about a subject like leadership or about a person like the best ideas of James Dyson.
How To Sell Like Steve Jobs
- ▶ 42:29 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
How Steve Jobs Kept Things Simple
- ▶ 24:25 David Senra So I remember reading James Dyson's autobiography for the first time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:52 David Senra And you just heard that because when I'm quoting Sam Walton, when I'm quoting Michael Moritz, when I'm quoting Walt Disney, Herb Kelleher, James Dyson, all these other ideas from past Steve Jobs podcasts, I was doing that by searching this…
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 48:22 David Senra In fact, one of the best description I heard of this is when I, many years ago, the first time I read James Dyson's autobiography against the odds, he talked about this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:06 David Senra And I really think it speaks to what James Tyson was just saying.
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 38:11 David Senra Remember James Dyson episode 300. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:04 David Senra It's why I said out of every single book that I've ever read, my number one recommendation is still James Dyson's first autobiography against the odds by James Dyson. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:36 David Senra Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs, James Dyson, the founder of Red Bull, Red Bull, uh, Dietrich Massachusetts, uh, Charlie Munger.
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy
- ▶ 25:40 David Senra But if you can only read one of them, my number one recommendation would still be James Dyson's autobiography Against the Odds. 3 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 7:12 David Senra James Dyson.
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 57:23 David Senra Tiger Woods, uh, James Dyson, Ralph Lauren.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 41:43 David Senra So if you remember, uh, James Dyson had this great realization from trial and error in his career.
- ▶ 1:01:18 David Senra James Dyson.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 25:48 David Senra When I read that sentence, I was thinking of, uh, James Dyson's mentor. 3 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 16:46 David Senra And if you're a dictator, you want to listen to James Dyson when he said one of the most important things is retention of total control.
- ▶ 56:09 David Senra He does not, uh, adhere to James Dyson's principle of retention of total control and the importance of retention of total control. 2 times in the scene
Billionaire Art Dealer Larry Gagosian
- ▶ 5:11 David Senra Can't help but think of James Dyson in that situation. 3 times in the scene
John D Rockefeller: 38 Letters Rockefeller Wrote to His Son
- ▶ 1:18:06 David Senra And so one thing I think of is where James Dyson was nine years old and his father died really young, uh, from cancer. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Jimmy Buffett
- ▶ 24:16 David Senra Go back to episode 300 James Dyson. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Bugatti
- ▶ 47:48 David Senra And so then I want to get into more of how Bugatti worked and why this reminded me of an excerpt from James Dyson's first autobiography. 10 times in the scene
The Biography of Balenciaga
- ▶ 14:28 David Senra This is the James Dyson approach, right?
Paul Graham (How To Do Great Work)
- ▶ 17:48 David Senra It's why my number one recommendation is still James Dyson's first autobiography, Against the Odds.
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 52:07 David Senra I could easily be reading about James Dyson or George Lucas.
The Biography of The Founder of Glock
- ▶ 9:38 David Senra And then, as we'll see a few times today, Glock has a lot in common with James Dyson.
- ▶ 9:48 David Senra Glock is obsessed with control, just like James Dyson was. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 David Senra Again, it goes back to the advice from James Dyson.
The World's Great Family Dynasties: Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, & Toyada
- ▶ 39:38 David Senra This sounds like James Dyson. 3 times in the scene
David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)
- ▶ 7:55 David Senra Something I realized in rereading this book right after I read, uh, James Dyson's autobiography for the third or fourth time, is a lot of their ideas are the same. 4 times in the scene
The Biography of Tiger Woods
- ▶ 21:49 David Senra Like, I just read James Dyson's, uh, autobiography for a fourth time.
James Dyson (Against the Odds)
- ▶ 0:01 David Senra It must have been sometime in 1979 that I first heard the words, but James, if there were a better kind of vacuum cleaner, Hoover would have invented it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54 David Senra He has since written a second autobiography that came out a few years ago. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 David Senra And then he goes into why he's taking time away from his company to write this book. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:59 David Senra And then he goes into the fact that he was very unlikely that he was the one that was going to do this, because the vacuum cleaner, he goes through the history of the vacuum cleaner in the book, I'm going to skip over a lot of that, but… 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:21 David Senra My own success has been in observing objects and daily use, which it was always assumed could not be improved. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 David Senra And then James has exactly one chapter on his early life, especially what he's telling us there is let's skip over all the fluff that you know you find in a normal biography. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 David Senra He's essentially saying, hey, I'm going to learn from my dad's experience, and I'm going to make a vow to myself to not wait to do work that I love. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:00 David Senra So then James is telling us, like, what this chapter is all about, and we see his personality jump off at the 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 David Senra Ok, so we're gonna fast forward to when he is in art school. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 David Senra And just like a young James Dyson's, like, man, knowing Brunel's story fired me up. 2 times in the scene
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